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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1868

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Queanbeyan Police Court. Wednesday—november 11Th

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 November 1868 · page 2

Before the Police Magistrate and J. J. Wright, Esq., J.P. OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Charles Betts was convicted of this offence, and fined 10s…

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Extraordinary Case of Child-stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 November 1868 · page 4

A WOMAN has been tried at the Paris assize court for stealing a child under very extraordinary circumstances. She was a well-looking married woman, twenty-four years…

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The Murder of James M'cormick, Near Armidale

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 November 1868 · page 2

About three or four years ago there lived on the station of Messrs. Boulton and Bell, at Bergen-op-Zoom, a shepherd, aged upwards of seventy years, of the…

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Local and District News. Queanbeyan Police Court. Saturday—november 14Th

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 November 1868 · page 2

Before the Police Magistrate and Andrew Morton, Esq., J.P. BURGLARY.—Henry Quinn, remanded on a charge of feloniously breaking into a dwelling…

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Queanbeyan District Court

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 28 November 1868 · page 2

THE cause [?] of the November sittings of the above court, which commenced last Monday, was unusually short, and for the greater part cases of common debt, amongst which were…

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Attempted Murder of Mr. Manning

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 December 1868 · page 1

IT is with feelings of the deepest regret that we have to record a murderous assault, perpetrated on Mr. A. W. Manning, under colonial secretary, on the 24th November. The news that such an event had…

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